Conversations With

Hosted by Martha Teichner

Guests

Charleston Gaillard Center May 28, 2:00pm Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels (Omar, p 20)

Dock Street Theatre May 30, 3:30pm Playwright Mark O’Rowe and the cast of The Approach (p 52)

Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston June 5, 5:00pm Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood, p 54)

Dock Street Theatre June 7, 3:00pm

Spoleto Festival USA General Director Mena Mark Hanna

MARTHA TEICHNER has been a CBS News correspondent since 1977. During that time, she has covered major historical events around the world—for a dozen years mostly in conflict zones—helping to pave the way for other women journalists. She joined CBS Sunday Morning in December 1993. She has won 13 Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. DuPont Award, five James Beard Awards, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, among others. Born in Traverse City, Michigan, Teichner is a graduate of Wellesley College. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, When Harry Met Minnie, a memoir about two dogs and the power of friendship, was released in February 2021.

Made possible in part by the Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation.

JAZZ TALKS

Hosted by Larry Blumenfeld

Guests

Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston May 28, 5:00pm Youssou NDOUR (p 75)

June 2, 5:00pm Tyshawn Sorey (pp 89, 91)

LARRY BLUMENFELD writes regularly about music and culture for The Wall Street Journal. During the past 20 years, his work has also appeared in publications including The Village Voice and The New York Times, and at websites including Salon and Truthdig. One focus of his work has been the intersection of music, politics, and social justice, particularly relating the US and Cuba, and to post-flood New Orleans. He received the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Writing in 2011 from the Jazz Journalists Association, a Katrina Media Fellowship with the Open Society Institute, and a National Arts Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in Best Music Writing, 2008 (Da Capo Press) and Music in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge Press), among other collections. He has lectured and presented widely at institutions including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.